unglamorous
英 [ʌnˈɡlæmərəs]
美 [ʌnˈɡlæmərəs]
adj. 无魅力的; 不刺激的; 枯燥的
BNC.33308 / COCA.25480
牛津词典
adj.
- 无魅力的;不刺激的;枯燥的
not attractive or exciting; dull- an unglamorous job
乏味的工作
- an unglamorous job
英英释义
adj
- not challenging
- an unglamorous job greasing engines
双语例句
- And unglamorous suburbs like Fangshan and Tongzhou will be designated as 'hubs' for specific industries, like petrochemicals and 'cultural industries,' respectively.
房山和通州等不太繁荣的郊区将被定为特定行业的中心,比如房山和通州将分别被规划为石油化工和文化产业中心。 - Profit-starved hedge fund managers, best known as masters of the financial universe, are turning to an unlikely place for their next windfall: the unglamorous world of long-only asset management.
享有金融世界主宰者之称的对冲基金经理人因苦于无法获得利润,纷纷转向一个人们意料之外的领域寻找发大财的机会:貌似平淡无奇的单边做多资产管理领域。 - But the government is still too fond of its grandiose projects and too slow to get unglamorous things right.
但政府还是太热衷于它的宏伟事业,纠正那些错误的事情的速度太过缓慢。 - The arrest of Sergey aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs employee at the centre of a criminal case involving the unsanctioned downloading of sophisticated trading software codes, has thrust the largely unglamorous world of computerised equity trading into the spotlight.
原高盛(goldmansachs)员工谢尔盖阿列尼科夫(sergeyaleynikov)因涉嫌私自下载尖端交易软件代码而被捕,这成为一桩刑事案件的核心,令人们关注起大体上乏味无趣的计算机化股票交易问题。 - For decades, iron ore was plentiful, prices were stable and mining the commodity was a monotonous and unglamorous business.
在长达数十年中,铁矿石储量丰富,价格稳定,开采这种大宗商品是一个单调乏味的行当。 - This is all pretty unglamorous stuff, you could say better, though, than the alternative.
你会说,这些措施听上去都相当乏味,但总比其它选择都要好。 - Bruce's office is a corner one, utilitarian and unglamorous.
布鲁斯的办公室在角落里,实用而普通。 - In the former Soviet Union, grapes were grown from Moldova to Tajikistan and transformed into wine with maximum efficiency but minimum attention to quality. Half-made wine, stuffed full of preservatives, was transported to unglamorous bottling plants near the major cities.
在前苏联,葡萄种植区从摩尔多瓦到塔吉克斯坦,这些葡萄通过效益最大化、同时完全无视质量的方式变成了酒。添加大量防腐剂的葡萄酒半成品,被运送到大城市附近乏善可陈的瓶装工厂。 - Even in the case of an API or a similarly unglamorous set of functions, someone else cares: a partner development team, a consuming application team, whomever.
即使是关于API或者类似单调的功能,也会有人关心:一个合伙开发团队,一个激进的应用团队,或者其他人。 - The unglamorous sibling of the gondola; these no-frills boats get passengers from one side of the canal to the other for a meagre fee.
这些无装饰的船只将乘客从运河的一边送到另一边,只收取很少的费用。